Saturday, December 12, 2015

Lee Noble – Un Look (2015)

Comment: The Californian musician Lee Noble`s 11-track
issue is an introspective view either through sublimely droning organ-induced
compositions or delicately strumming strings and orchestrated synthesised
layers. By using the former method Lee Noble explores sounds in an abstract,
fairly experimental way. In this case, his music chimes like an example of hyper-realistic
daydreaming saturated with little angels and beneficial sprites wobbling and
dancing very slowly nearby you because of being either isolated by slow-motion filter or shifted by caressing of a faint sea breeze. For instance, listen to Marble Shroud
which gives one goose bumps due to minimally droning organ lines and little yet
clearly remarkable phase changes within the one. On the other side, while he is
singing then compositions remind of Radiohead and Noble`s vocal comes close to
Thom Yorke (for instance, Out Of Out,
Pink Laser, Light Death, A Few Better
Than Some). At times he exploits majestically floating yet restrained samples
and poignant vinyl induced hiss and crackling noise to adorn tracks with a more
organic approach (Light Death). It
might be the music Lee Noble has produced during the last 6-7 years it will
have tagged as baroque pop/chamber pop in the future. In fact, as a reviewer I feel myself quite confused because it is hard to decide is it experimental music or rather being a part of experimental pop music, is it ambient or rather having a place within ambient pop compartment. It might be the issue is a thoroughgoing post-album thereby having crossed all those hypothetical borders laid in front of him. By kindred souls I
recommend to listen to Ducktails, Real Estate, M.Geddes Gengras, x.y.r, Cankun,
Balam Acab, M. Sage, LAY BAC etc. However, first of all one should discover his
previous outings because many of them are essential gems of modern music. Im a word, Un Look is a beatific glimpse indeed.